Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Edinburgh man who 's fought for eight years to overturn a conviction for armed robbery says he 's prepared to go the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 2 | I do n't think Lawrence got any convictions for armed robbery has he , or that there are any subsequently ? |
| 3 | The rules for advance disclosure do not , of course , apply to ex parte applications . |
| 4 | However , case conferences are not just a forum for professional decision making . |
| 5 | Closed windows and doors help to contain smoke and flames for about 20 minutes , and as inhaled smoke can immobilise people who are attempting to escape , these vital minutes may permit a more orderly evacuation from other parts of the building , and simultaneously allow time for professional help to arrive . |
| 6 | In this chapter and others , we describe and comment on the strategies for professional development adopted and/or commended , ranging from day-to-day collaboration in the classroom , as discussed above , to whole-school strategies such as those explored in Chapters 3 and 6 , and LEA courses and the work of advisers which we consider in Chapter 7 . |
| 7 | The importance of the level of expertise for professional power has led some writers to make a distinction between professions and semi-professions , with doctors and lawyers in the former category but social workers and teachers in the latter . |
| 8 | These interpretations can be reviewed and considered in the light of the aims of the self-advocacy movement , with the question being posed — does this interpretation of normalisation and the implications for professional practice appear to support and facilitate the open-ended processes of growth emerging from the advocacy movements ? |
| 9 | It seems clear that in a number of places the word for professional soldier has been misunderstood as meaning " thousand " . |
| 10 | The Regional Sports Councils ' resources consist of MONEY ( through regional participation grants for specific projects ) , INFLUENCE ( brought to bear on other agencies ) and TIME ( in terms of sports council personnel ) . |
| 11 | Disadvantages include handwriting as an obstruction to understanding , the element of personal ‘ ownership ’ which discourages the release of the book to some central point at the time of completion and so the sharing of data therein ; the primitive linking of support data ( anything from staples to sticky tape ) with the accompanying disincentive to completeness and tendency to data loss ( e.g. through sticky tape perishing ) ; some support data presented even more of a problem , such as photographs and outsize computer print out which led to separate support folders to the actual laboratory notebook . |
| 12 | The teacher 's comment reflects her conviction that the impetus for collaborative learning arises from the processes of the task , rather than its structure . |
| 13 | She had loved him , she thought now , because , just at that time , she had had to have something else , someone else , to love , a private place for wounded love to go to . |
| 14 | As I have indicated , the requirements for competition are slightly different , but we can use the fitness built up through normal training to provide a platform upon which to establish more specialised requirements . |
| 15 | The most difficult requisite to produce was ‘ Conscience ’ for the struggles for political liberty had always been in the name of ‘ Rights ’ , and in this conflict , ‘ the other side of the civic relation naturally fell out of sight ’ . |
| 16 | Increasingly , candidates for political leadership have seen the balance of advantage swing away from those who control organizational resources towards those with ‘ media recognition ’ — a public profile calculated to secure them appropriate media coverage with the new mass selectorate that chooses presidential candidates or party leaders . |
| 17 | But in a speech to President Suharto and ministers he added : ‘ At times nations are tempted to disregard fundamental human rights in a misguided search for political unity based on military or economic power alone . |
| 18 | The CDU proposed the addition of a clause to the Basic Law ( constitution ) which would allow the authorities to reject applicants for political asylum entering Germany from a third country in which they were not at risk of political persecution . |
| 19 | How to create a constitutional forum for political discussion involving , amongst others , the paramilitary organisations , is as yet an insoluble problem . |
| 20 | Popular pressure for political change mounted in 1990 . |
| 21 | Popular pressure for political change induced Mobutu to announce reforms in April 1990 [ see p. 37366 ] . |
| 22 | The scope for political exchange complicates the nature of bargaining in state enterprise industrial relations . |
| 23 | The friends of Montrose who supported the various candidates were very troublesome , for political management required careful and friendly replies , and it was clear that they could not all be given the answers they expected or hoped to receive . |
| 24 | Dominica 's foreign affairs were dominated by the plans for political union agreed in principle by the seven countries of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ) . |
| 25 | The promise of the social wage , enshrined in the law , had given the miners remarkable room for political manoeuvre to humanise their spartan communities . |
| 26 | On May 31 he was quoted as saying that he was satisfied that all prisoners who qualified for political status had been released but that officials were still sifting petitions . |
| 27 | Since Weber analysed the organizational requirements of the capitalist state , this influence has increased as those characteristics of bureaucracy which he recognized as being a basis for political power have become more pronounced . |
| 28 | Moreover , just as important as stressing the plurality of political resources , which form the basis for the exercise of power , pluralist approaches tend to stress the contingency of transforming the potential for political power offered by the possession of such resources into the actual exercise of power . |
| 29 | Mass agitation for political reform had been launched on Feb. 18 by the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy ( MRD ) , which embraced Nepal 's main opposition groups , the Nepali Congress and the United Left Front ( composed of several communist groups ) [ see pp. 37246-47 ] . |
| 30 | The " consultations " failed , prompting all the main political groups in Kuwait to form a joint delegation which informed Shaikh Saad on March 30 that it was not prepared to join a new government before a timetable for political reform had been established . |